Place details
Place nameFree State
Other namesOrange Free State, Orange Free State, Province of the, Oranje-Vrystaat, Oranje Vrystaat
CountrySouth Africa
Latitude-29
Longitude26
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Populated by Bantu peoples before arrival of Europeans in the early 19th cen.; Boer immigration accelerated during the Great Trek of the 1830s; was administered by Great Britain from 1848 until the founding of the independent Orange Free State in 1854.